National study finds off-label prescribing common, often not backed by data
... to consider strategies for mandatory postapproval surveillance that focus on curtailing underevaluated off-label practices that jeopardize patient safety or represent economically wasteful prescribing practices."...$900,000 for first Canadian Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control
...Program (CHEP); Develop a comprehensive national surveillance program for hypertension; Increase public awareness of hypertension; and Lobby to eliminate indiscriminate addition of salt by the public food sector. "Dr. Norm Campbell's past experience and reputation beyond the field of hypertension make h...Study suggests new human genotype may be prone to vCJD
...rtainties further underline the need for continued surveillance of vCJD in the UK. It is important to be cautious ...epidemic and highlight the urgent need for ongoing surveillance for vCJD," they add. "They also pose challenges to health officials who have to formulate policies c...Embargoed materials for Complementary & Integrative Medicine Conference
...gators conclude that the current system of passive surveillance is likely not adequate. "Whether this lack of reporting is an issue with regards to knowledge about the reporting system or due to other constraints, is unknown," the authors wrote. The majority (92%) of pharmacists surveyed felt that more education...New study calculates millions of years saved in lives of AIDS patients
...ed a computer simulation model to examine national surveillance and efficacy data for newly diagnosed adult AIDS patients under care in the United States from 1989 to 2003. They divided those years into "eras" corresponding to specific advances in AIDS care, and then used the simulation model to determine per-per...AIDS drugs have saved 3 million years of life in the US
...om U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance and other published data. The investigators defined six eras of AIDS treatment between 1989 and 2003. In the first two periods, 1989 to 1992 and 1993 to 1995, drugs became available to prevent two common infections--Pneumocyctis jirovecii pneumonia...Study shows surveillance could cut number of blood stream infections
...on and Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust shows how a surveillance programme designed to monitor blood stream infecti...dical Journal, shows how the implementation of the surveillance scheme for patients undergoing haemodialysis significantly reduced the numbers of dialysis related b...MRSA is a global health problem
...ore on health-care authorities to develop not only surveillance systems that are able to monitor the clonal dynamics of MRSA over wide geographical areas but also to provide the resources for early recognition of MRSA carriers through rapid screening. Hospital staff have a responsibility to implement, maintain, a...Case to establish the Ohio tobacco and research center
... in regional and statewide youth and adult tobacco surveillance data, as well as changes in local clean indoor air policies. "We are very excited about this opportunity to work with TUPCF on this important public health issue to reduce tobacco use throughout Ohio," states Dr. Elaine Borawski, director of the Cent...Medical device test center expands capabilities to help reduce potential interference
...f potential interference is the electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems that help retailers, libraries and other establishments prevent theft and track inventory. Also, early signs suggest potential concerns from the radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems that are now coming into more widespread use...Israel/Lebanon conflict should not overshadow crisis in Gaza
.... Immunisation programmes and communicable-disease surveillance are also at risk of being scaled down without the funding, states the Editorial. The Lancet comments: "despite a recent agreement by international donors to resume funding, the situation remains perilous. It is understandable and inevitable that th...World Trade Center dust cuts lung function capability in rescue workers
... striking of these lessons is the value of medical surveillance for workers in jobs with high risk for inhalation exposure to toxicants. Because the New York City Fire Department (NYFD) had pre-exposure pulmonary function test results on virtually all firefighters involved in the emergency response to the attack ...Immune responses in trachoma, and more
... authors say the method can be used in demographic surveillance on AIDS deaths. Citation: Lopman BA, Barnabas RV, Boerma JT, Chawira G, Gaitskell K, et al. (2006) Creating and validating an algorithm to measure AIDS mortality in the adult population using verbal autopsy. PLoS Med 3(8): e312. PLEASE ADD THE LI...Routine use of Hib vaccine could lead to virtual elimination of killer disease in Africa
...he Ministry of Health, Kenya. "The strength of our surveillance systems will also assist us with the evaluation of... programs to improve health systems and strengthen surveillance networks. This study further supports the WHO's Strategic advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) and A...U-M study finds some prostate cancer patients potentially overtreated
...n a wait-and-see approach of no therapy and active surveillance would have been a reasonable option, according to ...s, including the appropriateness of initial active surveillance in many lower-risk cases." The authors report that for many men with lower-risk cancers a potenti...Mexican Americans have higher risk of stroke recurrence
... County, TX as part of the BASIC project, a stroke surveillance project designed to study strokes in this isolated, urban community. From the beginning of 2000 until the end of 2004, researchers identified 1,345 patients who had their first stroke by analyzing hospital, nursing home and neurologists' records. A t...Quick diagnosis of flu strains possible with new microchip test
...influenza would be invaluable to international flu surveillance efforts," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "This is an encouraging advance." "This state-of-the-art research is vital to our efforts to protect the nation's health, and it may provide a new tool in our toolbox in the fight against influen...MRSA surveillance, rapid screening, and hospital hygiene key to preventing future transmission
...ore on health-care authorities to develop not only surveillance systems that are able to monitor the clonal dynamics of MRSA over wide geographical areas, but also to provide the resources for early recognition of MRSA carriers through rapid screening. Hospital staff have a responsibility to implement, maintain, ...Combined therapies may boost immune response and long-term protection against brain tumors
..., such as live glioma cells, that otherwise escape surveillance without immune therapy manipulation. It also has several other properties that significantly improve the immune system's effectiveness against gliomas, which are highly aggressive cancers. "Interleukin-23 promotes the function of dendritic cells an...A public health lesson from 9/11: To curb the flu, limit flights
.../11 levels. In addition, analysis of laboratory surveillance data from the WHO and CDC showed that in the 2001-2002 flu season, it took 53 days for flu to spread across the U.S., 60 percent longer than the average time of 33 days. By contrast, in France, where flight restrictions were not imposed, there was...